Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.34 Part 3/3 (Memories Being Tampered)

We have reached the last part of this volume 3 of Memory World (Millenium World), we're getting closer to the end of this series, by the end of this month, it is very likely that I will start volume 4, however is divided in 4 parts, If I keep up the pace I have been making, I might finish it by the end of July or early August (I hope is the case because it would be preferable this way).
Battle City whole arc (except the prologue) and Memory World's image panels ensembles addresses has been updated.


Plot Summary:

Dark Yugi is very surprised seeing the gang (I refer to them as such, because it's easier), Yugi being pharaoh's host, he gives a bit of boost in Dark Yugi's Ba gauge to be capable of summoning Sun Dragon Ra and successfully defeats thief Bakura, Dark Yugi turns to his friends asking why and how did they get to where he is, their friends informs him about their mission...(the reason why they are in the world of memory).

With the success of thief Bakura defeat, something is starting to awaken inside the world of memory and priest Akhenaden...the darkness of priest Akhenaden starts to emerge in priest Akhenaden psyche, later revealed that is acquainted with Yami Bakura...then is revealed that Dark Yugi's memories have been tampered by Dark Yugi's friends and made an alteration of the true events in the past and the dark Akhenaden tells that he is about to take care of it...and he does by making the time world of memory going backwards...from which point we don't know...


Key Points:

 

He is very surprised that they're in the world of memory...

This scene might be a bit confusing at first to explain to yourself and understand because of their lines, to see where it connects in their words, let's start with what Yugi says to Dark Yugi first:

"Half of your soul is still with me...!!"

It's a very strange and confusing affirmation at first, because how can someone's soul half be within someone, with Dark Yugi next thought, best way to start to explain this is the world of memory being a dimension inside the millenium puzzle, both sharing a body and mind through the millenium puzzle, because of their very close and special bond between spirit and host, plus if notice as Yugi said this and give his boost, the millenium puzzle of Dark Yugi as pharaoh started to shine...then Dark Yugi thinks:

"I can feel it...the presence of my partner...the other soul within me!!"

That's a way of phrasing meaning just as Yugi, within Dark Yugi/pharaoh soul there is the other half of Yugi's soul, due to their strong bond, as for the presence, why they didn't felt it before Yugi entered and started to enter the world of memory, the before was because it was impossible for them to sense each other since they were in different dimensions, Yugi in the physical world then inside the maze of the millenium puzzle, when Yugi entered, there was a long distance gap between where they were in the city and the palace and Dark Yugi was always inside the world of memory in the palace, only time he sensed, it was only a little when Yugi and the gang were at the entrance of the palace but not concrete enough to be sure, now here in this moment, they feel it much more easily each others presences, because they were usually side by side, in a way is the reverse, before it was Dark Yugi was the ghost and Yugi being the host, in this situation, their roles seem to have switched (but didn't really).


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Problems you might have run into...

It's related to the panels ensembles...the ones from tinypic I know for quite some time (but I intended to do this by August when I have to reorganise from the early volumes to dungeon dice monsters), what I'm talking about is from the whole Battle City to the first 2 volumes of Memory World, there is problem in reading the images, because their addresses were changed in the image host website I uploaded, so I have to update one full story arc and the first two volume of story arc I'm in now, fortunately is just images, if was the text included, I would be crying...but is still going to be quite a pain.

the reasons why it happened, I don't blame the website, from what I can tell is related to political and judicial problems that we have been facing lately about the internet in recent years.

Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.34 Part 2/3 (Riding Battle Between The Thief and The Pharaoh)

Tehehe, woohoo, 2nd part of the 3rd volume of Memory World, I like this phase a lot in Dark Yugi's character development, it's very nice, I look forward to reach my favourite moment in this part of the volume...


Plot Summary:

Dark Yugi riding in his horse summoning Slifer The Sky Dragon after thief Bakura with his Ka, leaving the palace with Ka riding battle starting...the gang at the entrance of the palace sleeping are awoken by the noise thief Bakura makes and see Dark Yugi leaving the palace riding on his horse, they recognise him straight away and they try to catch up to him...
While the Riding Battle is happening, it is a pretty fierce fight, since when they leave the palace, they are still in the city, because thief Bakura with his Ka can't defeat a God, so he uses a very low tactic to weaken the pharaoh by using his Ka to attack the citizens and Dark Yugi uses the God Slifer to shield the citizens from thief Bakura's Ka attack, this keeps going until they are on the outskirts of the city, from here are attempts to outsmart each other but because Dark Yugi is weakened for shielding his citizens, thief Bakura is at a bigger advantage even with the help of the priests that caught to them, they still struggle fighting against thief Bakura...when Dark Yugi feels he is about to lose this fight, his friends arrives...


Key Points:

 

I love that panel of him riding the horse, it is from different perspective from the last post I mentioned, but is such a nicely drawn one, I have to mention, once again the horse really stands out to me...
This is when thief Bakura begins his smart tactic but still pretty low...thief Bakura has come up with something planned in this moment to defeat Dark Yugi by his thought:

"That's right, pharaoh...follow me to your doom!"

He says things as if he can see the future like what he said to priest Akhenaden...in this moment too...what could make it to be the case...I wonder...


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.34 Part 1/3 (The King of Thieves Strikes Again!)

I'm now entering the volume 3 of Memory World (Volume 34 in Japan), 4 volumes to go :3...
I'm quite glad, it's going smoothly, not as fast as I wish to, but still nice pace nonetheless, there is interesting details from certain panels I will bring up that I'm looking forward to.


Plot Summary:

This recent discovery of an extremely powerful Ka, because this mysterious woman is weakened from lack of nutrition and hydration (food and water) plus wounded, so he order the guards to take to the hospital wing of the palace and others to stay guarded at the city in case thief Bakura comes back, the priests go back to the palace now with priest Seto being very satisfied with the results of his "Ka-Hunt"...the priests come back to the palace and report to the pharaoh, but Dark Yugi still feels uneasy not for just about Kaiba's request, also about thief Bakura...the gang excited about the priests coming back to the palace, they follow the priests...

The gang can only reach the entrance of the palace, despite them being able to go through places like ghosts, however they can't do it with the palace for some reason...
As time passes, the night arrives and Yami Bakura "shadow spy" watches over the city floating in the air and then is watching thief Bakura eating in a bar, who attracted attention wearing and holding gold pieces, the men tries to gang up on him and thief Bakura releases his Ka to kill the men surrounding him...thief Bakura continues eating.

Priest Seto speaks to priest Akhenaden about his search for Ka was successful and discovery over a powerful Ka that rival the gods and could defeat thief Bakura's Ka and resides inside a woman, but her body is very weak so he is letting her resting and recover, so then he can take her Ka, when priest Seto leaves, priest Akhenaden is disturbed by priest Seto with a important revelation...
While priest Seto pays visit to the hospital wing to check the progress of the mysterious woman recovery, the shrine of wedju guarded by priest Akhenaden is invaded by thief Bakura, who didn't came to kill him but to give an offer...priest Akhenaden tries to defend himself but thief Bakura is quicker puts him in invisible binds against the wall, they have an important talk, takes priest Akhenaden's millenium eye and implements a part of him from the millenium ring in the millenium eye, then puts it back to where it was, leaving priest Akhenaden unconscious...
Dark Yugi reading ancient scrolls has a bad feeling of something terrible about to happen, the officers goes to the pharaoh to inform that of signs thief Bakura is around the city from the tavern where he was eating, Dark Yugi gets himself ready to follow him, the same for priest Seto from officers informing him thief Bakura was back and attacked priest Akhenaden leaving him severely injured and unconscious...the rally battle between Dark Yugi/pharaoh and thief Bakura is about to begin...


Key Points:

 

Priest Seto is from shock to sinking in to very pleased that they found a Ka worthy to protect the kingdom and defeat thief Bakura, one of the guards speaks the urgency for the girl's recovery about her health and then another guard asks if they take her to the prison with the others, priest Seto authorise the guard request in taking her to the palace for medical treatment, at first it looks like is giving her this kind of treatment because of her Ka...but is it really or is just that? (if we look at her, just her glance we had from previous post, it's quite telling she has a pretty face...blue eyes as well, it has been told to draw people in).
Priest Seto tells his guards...

"No one is to speak of this to the pharaoh! We don't have the luxury to be as merciful and lenient as in the past."

Even though I don't agree with this method, he is not attacking or threatening, he is being forceful, he could be doing this in a more tactful manner, by explaining the situation and recruit those who would be willing to help defeat thief Bakura and that way would be more effective to find people with strong Ka, oh well, this is priest Seto with extreme methods tendencies and short-sighted...very similar to Kaiba, as long no one innocent is being harmed for the time being...

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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.33 Part 3/3 (The Girl and The White Dragon Residing Within)

So far, it is getting surprisingly smoothly about the speed in publishing my thoughts and observations, I might start writing the draft of Memory World Volume 3 Part 1 of next week (if it keeps up like this or faster, I might end this in August).
I'm finally done with volume 2 of Memory World, that was quite the long journey.


Plot Summary:

The gang is still searching for the true door to the world of memory, when Yugi tries though, it shows a difficult moment for Yugi and Dark Yugi during the duel of Dark Yugi against Kaiba fought in Duelist Kingdom, Yugi says that duel was very hard for Dark Yugi, then after some thinking he says this might be a trap to test their hearts, when Yugi notices Jounouchi's marks on the doors, he reminds himself of the symbol of the smiling face Anzu marked from the Death-T events, Yugi stands his hand in position and encourage them to do the same in the same positions like last time in Death-T, as if Yugi is guiding them to the world of memory, it was a success, as if the labyrinth was opening itself, then they enter falling from the sky into the world of memory...

The aftermath of the death of priest Mahado creates a heated discussion between the priests whether thief Bakura is alive or dead and what they're going to do about it, then Mana arrives and begs to see the stone slab of her master (priest Mahado/Black Magician), Dark Yugi let her in, she starts crying in front of the stone slab and asks the pharaoh to summon him, then priest Isis intervenes with a way for Mana to understand the situation better and giving advice to her.
Priest Seto asks for permission to the pharaoh if he can go and send troops to the city in the effort to search for thief Bakura in case he is alive, Dark Yugi is suspicious of priest Seto real intentions, he authorises on the condition to not throw the citizens into panic.

The gang successfully arrives inside the world of memory and also being amazed to see this world, there is an important conversation about how the rules works for the gang in this world of memory, while this conversation takes place, the priests are arriving the city and priest Seto reveals his real plan to priest Shada and there is a discussion about the Ka-hunt, then it moves to a bar, a man eating and drinking and tells his story in how he got off the desert, he saw a vision of a white dragon passing by that guided him back to the city, the guards surround him, revealing he was a criminal who was banished and thrown to the desert...they bring him to the priests, priest Shada does a reading to his soul revealing that he has a strong evil Ka in shape of a familiar evil clown, then the man says he prefers going to prison than being in the desert and speaks of the white dragon to the priests...

The gang is searching the area for clues and the palace, they find a girl who is in a weakened state being thrown to the ground by some citizens because of her pale skin, white hair and blue eyes, blaming her for the arrival of the priests to seize anyone who opposes them, the gang immediately goes to try to rescue her while forgetting the citizens can't see them, the priests arrive to the scene and asks the citizens what is going on, they try to explains themselves and priest Seto perceived they were bullying her and the reasons straight away and scold them for it and asks the guards to assist the girl with water and they reveal that she needs treatment because she is very weakened (lack of food and water plus wounded), the millenium key has a strong reaction to her due to her powerful Ka and tells priest Seto that is a shape of a white dragon...


Key Points:

 

This is when he a bad feeling in opening a door, it takes back to this moment in Duelist Kingdom, one can wonder, it was a turning point, specially for Dark Yugi and Yugi, Dark Yugi after this didn't play like he usually  would, Yugi was at odds with him and himself...

 

At first Yugi thought it was from Dark Yugi's perspective, it was hard on him morally speaking, after all but when Yugi said:

"That fight...it was hard on the other me...his most painful memories are hidden behind this door...The moment I opened it, my heart ached, too"

He is quite right that was very hard for him, but for Yugi saying "my heart ached, too" and also there was bit of what Yugi was feeling at that moment and made him interfere "No...stop..." because in the aftermath of this duel as I wrote , Yugi interfered since the duel was going too far and dangerous, unnecessarily dangerous too caused by Kaiba's foolishness and reckless trait...speaks more to be one of Yugi's most painful memories, however it is also for Dark Yugi, but this instance is for Yugi, also he can't feel his presence at this time and why is the case that is his and not Dark Yugi despite his room of soul, since Dark Yugi is in a different dimension (the world of memory), and Yugi will explain it for me soon in one of the key points ahead.


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.33 Part 2/3 (The Death of Priest Mahado)

Now I have reached the 2nd part of this volume, when it focuses on Priest Mahado's death and what conducts to it, because his death is very important for his character and his role in the series overall...
It may come more posts per month around 2 or 3 posts and sometimes 4, like old times. :)


Plot Summary:

The next day after the battle against thief Bakura, they were determined to train and practice their ka battle and their teamwork, between the priests being divided in two teams consisted of 3 members each, Team Mahado (Mahado, Isis and Kalim) and Team Akhenaden (Akhenaden, Seto and Shada) while the pharaoh and the vizier are watching their training...Team Mahado showing an exemplary teamwork but Priest Seto fights ruthlessly and mercilessly even with his team members to the point of sacrificing one or three Ka of their teammates to power up his ka and win the battle against team Mahado, priest Seto starts to criticise priest Mahado about his ka and performance and Kalim tries to defend him but priest Seto conceitedly disagrees, since the pharaoh, Dark Yugi didn't approve priest Seto method of winning the match, he does lecture him in going overboard and is willing to give a demonstration by having a match with priest Seto requested by priest Seto himself, Dark Yugi easily wins without summoning a god but a different ka, the kuriboh while pointing out priest Seto weaknesses.
After the training, Mahado is on the outskirts of the palace and senses someone inside one of the decorative vases, asks to come out, introducing a new character that looks very familiar, a young girl named Mana and is Mahado's pupil, her intentions was to see his master off to serve the valley of the kings in order to protect the pharaohs tombs, specially the former king's tomb and has a conversation with the vizier Siamun, when priest Mahado leaves, the conversation continues between the vizier and Mana.
In the valley of the kings, the guards are preparing for something ordered by priest Mahado, putting a stone slab on the outskirts of the former king's tomb and priest Mahado is inside to catch and defeat thief Bakura, thief Bakura sucessfully enters the tomb and there is a match between their Ka, at the end of this fight, priest Mahado sacrifices himself to fuse his Ba with his Ka in becoming the Black Magician/Dark Magician, with his attack, thief Bakura has fallen from the collapsing bridge inside the tomb, it's uncertain if he died or not but priest Mahado shows up in the stone slab outside the tomb as Black Magician/Dark Magician...then is delivered to the pharaoh to give the sad news...


Key Points:

 

Priest Seto methods is quite extreme and ruthless, even before thief Bakura threat, he was little extreme, but here is on a new level that is very unsightly, showing thirst for power, I guess thief Bakura put him on a new level of extreme...he sacrifices the Ka's of his team members in making sure he would achieve victory...Kaiba is also quite similar in this part...

Priest Kalim is quite right, thinking about it, if priest Seto didn't use such method to win, his team would be the one to lose because of Priest Mahado Team having better teamwork than Priest Akhenaden Team.

"Hmph...War isn't won by the number of soldiers...or the number of words. Mark these words, priest Kalim....I'll listen to you after you become a more worthwhile opponent."

To be honest, I quite disagree and agree, but power isn't the answer to win a war or a fight, that's quite naive and short-sighted, but he is right that isn't won by number of soldiers or words, also he does have the same problem as Kaiba, seeing the result of a battle as black and white, only if you win you have the right to say whatever you want and "to be right" and the loser has to bow his head, so conceited and close-minded, this kind of mindset irritates me and I strongly disagree.
Honestly, Priest Seto seems to have a problem with priest Mahado...



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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.33 Part 1/3 (The Quest for the Pharaoh Lost Name)

Now we're entering the 2nd volume part 1 of Memory World, wow,.
For awhile volume 2 and 3 are divided in 3 parts, so it might come a little faster the posts, if my current circumstances allow it...(I just moved recently, not the most basic ideal place of living but I'm hanging there, I don't have much of a choice anyway...).


Plot Summary:

As Dark Yugi is coming back to his throne holding his father's corpse inside his own thoughts, the fight between the priests and thief Bakura continues, they struggle with their spirits Ka against the powerful thief Bakura's evil ka, the priest is almost about to lose the fight when Dark Yugi intervenes to protect the priests and he summons one of his three gods, the Obelisk, they have an important conversation about ideals, morality and truth, then comes the clash between Diabond and Obelisk, the pharaoh and Obelisk practically wins the fight by taking a lot of damage from thief Bakura's Ba, but has enough to run away...

Inside the Millenium Puzzle, the gang struggles to find the right door and they ask Bobasa what is their goal in going into the Memory World, Bobasa reveals the gang mission is to find Dark Yugi's lost name and Yami Bakura's shadow spy listening to their conversation...

Dark Yugi is in the balcony of the palace watching over his country at night, the vizier Siamun and priest Mahado and other private conversation between priest Seto and Priest Akhenaden, they start talking about the recent events, then Dark Yugi looks up to the night sky thinking about his friends and looking at the cartouche as he starts to consider about his lost name.


Key Points:

 

The panels on the left...I really wonder how Takahashi-sensei keeps those details of Dark Yugi's accessories from his pharaoh outfit and does it beautifully...the expressions as well...

On the subject of the scene, as he walks back to the throne to take his father's corpse, he is with an expression of being lost in thoughts, he is wondering about what thief Bakura said about being his father who made them, as you can remember Dark Yugi does have a tendency to doubt a bit easily...but...

 

I love this scene, it shows his character development like this instance of his long and full acknowledgement about the evil within the millenium items and admits being undeniable since Pegasus mentioned the "evil intelligence" inside the millenium items, however it bugs me one thing in what he is thinking, but only a little:

"When I think of everyone who's used the millenium items...Pegasus...Marik...Bakura...There must be an evil power hidden in them...there's no getting around it..."

The line when  he says "everyone" and then refers to his enemies who wielded and wields millenium items, you would think he is excluding himself, Shadi and Ishizu, but the added "there is no getting around it", he is including himself, Shadi and Ishizu, because himself did use violent to slightly violent shadow games, specially in a psychological way, Shadi was quite violent with them, but the most extreme were the three that Dark Yugi mentioned, even Ishizu for him doesn't fully get away with it because she was slightly tempted by the ability of predicting the future from the Millenium Tauk in a attempt to win against Kaiba, she cheated a little, one way or another those who wielded the millenium item were seduced by the darkness within them somehow, even a little (like Ishizu), the moment Pegasus spoke of the "evil intelligence" within them, Dark Yugi stopped using his millenium puzzle to do penalty games and shadow games.

"Father...I want to know the truth...Do you really make them? And if so, why?"

Besides the readers at this point for the first time would suspect what most thief Bakura said is the truth as I mentioned in the previous post , Dark Yugi suspects the same, but is willing to give the benefit of doubt to his father, because he must have wondered did his father, his predecessor personally created them or asked the royal scholars to do without knowing the evil within and being made of black magic? he must have considered possibilities, but since there is yet evidence to say otherwise, because there is the existence of the millenium items to prove that he might have made them or ordered to, even though his time of ruling proven he was a good leader which contradicts for someone creating or ordered to create forbidden magical artefacts with black magic as wondering did his father knew beforehand? so he feels conflicted and can only give the benefit of doubt and wants to know the truth and why, so that then he can make a decision about it...


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